Bitcoiners Beware: Microsoft has your Encryption Keys, How to Keep your Data Safe
One of Windows 10’s coolest security features may be rendered totally useless if you don’t take the correct precautions. Disk encryption is built in and activated by default on this latest iteration of Windows, but a hidden function of Windows may allow Microsoft to access your encrypted data. The Intercept recently reported that users who login to Windows 10 with a Microsoft account automatically upload a copy of their system’s recovery key to Microsoft’s servers. This recovery key can be used to unlock your system’s encrypted disk, which means that users are giving Microsoft the ability....
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Apple CEO Tim Cook along with other tech giants are fighting back by explicitly stating they are not planning to weaken encryption on their devices to suit the needs of the government. A similar approach to encryption can be found in the Bitcoin ecosystem, or to be more precise, in the way mobile wallet provider Airbitz positions itself. When it comes to....
Encryption has always been a hot topic in the world of technology and innovation. Not only does encryption allow both consumers and businesses to keep data safe from prying eyes, but it has also been a thorn in the side of governments around the world. The French government is not a fan of backdoors to break encryption, whereas a recent New York Bill....
StealMyWallet.com allows users to download the website owner's Bitcoin wallet which holds their "life savings." The download is a wallet.dat file which Bitcoiners can put into their Bitcoin client. The Bitcoin address currently contains over 10.6, or $2,800. You're probably wondering, Why would anyone give away a wallet holding so much money? It's because the wallet is encrypted, and cannot be opened without entering its passphrase. Also read: NSA is Working on an Encryption-Cracking Quantum Computer. Can You StealMyWallet? Bitcoiners have contributed a few bits to the StealMyBitcoin.com....
More and more Bitcoin-inspired services are popping up all over the Internet. Blockchain technology and strong encryption standards allow developers to come up with new and creative ways to protect services we use in our daily lives. Passphrase.io is a new zero-knowledge notepad-like service that can be accessed at any time from any device, by using a passphrase. Storing sensitive data in a secure and safe environment is not an easy task to accomplish for most people. Even though there are multiple guides on the internet of how to store data, and even encrypt if needed, doing so is still a....
At a Blockchain Conference in San Francisco last month, a spat between Tone Vays, Head of Research at Bitcoin news portal Brave New Coin, and Safe Cash’s Chris Kitze, highlighted the paradigm shift in the blockchain technology industry. Whereas historically Bitcoiners have often championed Bitcoin as a way to undermine government and banks, a new breed of blockchainers believe that the underlying technology, the blockchain, can make banks and governments better at what they do. “There’s a couple of things you said that made absolutely no sense to me,” Vays told Kitze from the audience....